9.0 Managing Software with ZENworks

SUSE Linux Enterprise is ready for integration into an environment
administrated by Novell ZENworks Linux Management. It includes an
open source ZENworks management agent, back-end daemon, and user
space software management tools. Novell ZENworks package management
tools use a ZENworks Linux Management server to download packages and
updates. If no ZENworks Linux Management
server is available in your local network, your system can get updates from
the Novell Customer Center, which is described in Section 3.14.4, Novell Customer Center Configuration.

The back-end daemon for the Novell ZENworks Linux Management Agent
is the ZENworks Management Daemon (ZMD). ZMD performs software
management functions. The daemon is started automatically during boot.

Check the status of the daemon with rczmd
status.
To start the daemon, enter
rczmd start. To restart it, use
rczmd restart. Deactivate it with
rczmd stop.

ZMD can also be started with special options to control its behavior.
To have ZMD always start with some special options permanently, set
ZMD_OPTIONS in /etc/sysconfig/zmd then
run SuSEconfig. The available options
are:

-n, --no-daemon

Do not run the daemon in the background.

-m, --no-modules

Do not load any modules.

-s, --no-services

Do not load initial services.

-r, --no-remote

Do not start remote services.

ZMD configuration is stored in /etc/zmd/zmd.conf.
You can change the configuration manually or with rug. The
URL for the ZENworks service that zmd uses at initial start-up and a
registration key are stored in
/var/lib/zmd. Updates are downloaded to the ZMD cache
in /var/cache/zmd.

ZMD is the back-end only. The software management tasks are initiated
through the command line tool rug or the graphical Software Updater
applet.